For less-skilled riders, Ubin also has a network of rolling and flat gravel roads, and even the odd sealed stretch.

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As our Land Cruiser sped off down toward the nine-tent Olakira Camp, the sheer scale of the landscape unfolded, the spiny flat-tops of the acacia trees dotting undulating fields of grass and gentle hills rolling out to wide open vistas of scruffy brush.

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It's a fresh, relaxed ensemble that one could wear with flat sandals on a tropical holiday shedding the jacket and rolling up the shirt sleeves for after-dinner dancing and rum punches.

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Mr. Loughner spent his adolescence just north of Tucson, in a community where a flat carpet of strip malls and low subdivisions dissolves at its fringes into dirt roads and rolling, saguaro-spiked desert.

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